The
average cost of rent in major Canadian cities in September,
September, 2017
(Jennefer Laidley, Income Security Advocacy Centre - Toronto)

The average cost of rent in major
Canadian cities in Septemberhttp://dailyhive.com/toronto/average-rent-canada-september-2017
Easily search apartments for rent across the US and Canada
While some citys [ sic ] prices for one-bedroom rentals remained
unchanged since last month, the most expensive in Canada has now surpassed
$2000, according to the latest report by PadMapper.

Assessing the Economic Impact of Ontario's
Proposed Minimum Wage Increase
http://www.fao-on.org/en/Blog/Publications/minimum_wage
September 12, 2017
As part of Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017
[ http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/bills/bills_detail.do?locale=en&Intranet=&BillID=4963
] , the government proposes raise Ontarios general minimum wage
from its current rate of $11.40 per hour to $14 per hour on January 1,
2018 and $15 per hour the following year. The governments proposal
to raise Ontarios general minimum wage to $15 per hour will dramatically
increase the number of minimum wage workers from just over 500,000 currently
to 1.6 million in 2019. As well, under a $15 minimum wage, adults and
those with full-time jobs would represent the majority of minimum wage
workers.

NOTE (by Gilles) : Lately, my computer freezes
inexplicably every time I try to open the ISAC media alerts page [ http://canadiansocialresearch.net/isac_media_scan.htm
] using Dreamweaver 4 HTML Editor. After many trials, tribulations and
a few choice epithets, I've decided to focus on new
resources for the website and the newsletter and to quit trying to keep
up with all the new material that's posted online under any one of many
themes that you'll find on my website. I've decided that from now on,
I'll stick to current news rather than attempt to be all things to all
people. If you're seeking ISAC info, scroll down to the link for the ISAC
archive just above the next red horizontal bar on the page you're now
reading.

Click the link
immediately above to access any of the articles in the list below.

Top Stories

Canadian incomes jump, Ontario residents
hit by manufacturing downturn: Statistics Canada
Census: Children make up one quarter of 4.8 million Canadians living in
poverty
Two million Canadian children living in poverty
Hennessy: CCPA Ontario: Seven things the Census teaches us about income
inequality
McInturff: CCPA: Sense of the Census: Income, wage gaps, and poverty

Income grows in resource-rich provides,
Ontario and Quebec lag behind
Fewer young kids, more seniors in low-income households
Percentage of children living in low-income housing highest in the Maritimes
Average household income climbed $7,000 in a decade
Highlights from the latest report on Canadian income levels

Census data shows Londons median household
income is 2nd-lowest among big Ontario cities
New census income data conceals the scars of the oil crash
Armine Yalnizyan on rising incomes
Stats Can The Daily: Household income in Canada: Key results from the
2016 Census
Undercover in Temp Nation

Metro talks: Ontario labour minister on
precarious work, minimum wage, and degrees that dont get jobs:
Minister of Labour Kevin Flynn: Browns got it all wrong
The real cost of unpaid internships
Inside the conditions migrant workers face in Niagara-on-the-Lake
Trudeau: Wealthy folks who would be affected by tax changes
making a lot of noise

Fair tax system down the drain if loopholes
arent closed
The rich are set to go to war over Trudeaus tax changes: Heres
what they are
Canadas unions welfare plans to start closing tax loopholes
Which tax, what middle class? Debunking the income splitting debate
Proposed tax changes could drive doctors out of country, physician warns

Doctors fury over proposed federal
tax changes could affect provincial health budgets
Trudeau government stands firm on tax changes
Coyne: The tax system cant possibly do what people want it to do
Tone-deaf rollout of Liberal tax reforms a lesson in how good ideas go
sour: Editorial
Walkom: Will Liberals fold again on difficult tax reform?

BC raising taxes for high earners and corporations
to help pay for $51.9B balanced budget
Tax hike in BC for wealthy, more money for education, housing, overdose
crisis
Iglika Ivanova and Alex Hemingway: Budget update investments a positive
first step for BC
Expect tax changes for $150K earners, carbon footprint, and small businesses
BC budget has two sides

Is workplace bullying compensable? Ontario
expanding workers compensation law to include emotional stress
Create stand-alone ministry for mental health and addictions, Ontario
NDP urges
Want free university? Changes to OSAP, Canada Student Grants could help
Editorial: End unjust and ineffective practice of academic streaming
Government release: More than one-third of college and university students
receiving free tuition

Former Sears employee waited to hear Sudbury
stores closure was a mistake
Sears Canada pension saga is not over yet
Job fair takes over North Bay City Hall
Windsor Assembly Plant to shut down this fall for five weeks
Average cost of one-bedroom rental in Toronto hits $2,000

Low wages leave Londoners caught in a housing
crunch
Chatham-Kent Legal Clinic expands to include help for employment law issues
Anishnabek Family Well-Being program brings wellness to First Nations
Protesters rally after talk of anti-loitering bylaw in downtown Leamington
Ottawa sees surge in welfare fraud as province eases eligibility rules
Woodstock town hall meeting will focus on solving problems of poverty
and food insecurity
Street Eats program combines cooking and community in Toronto

Across the Country

Living wage for Whitehors lowered between
2016 and 2017
Complaints of fruit pickers living in derelict North Okanagan house investigated
by regional district
No matter who governs, $15 an hour minimum wage is likely here to stay
in Alberta
Calgary Election: Advocacy group pushes council to introduce living wage
for city workers
Saskatchewan NDP leadership candidate calls for $15 minimum wage

Median incomes up in Manitoba, but percentage
living in poverty unchanged
Fighting for the rights of the poor and disabled in Nova Scotia 
for free
Businesses on PEI raise concerns about federal budget changes
Research group suggests EI model that helps Atlantic workers save for
retirement

The unspoken link between income, occupation
and suicide
US Census Bureau: Median incomes rose and poverty levels fell in 2016US incomes and poverty rate bounce back to pre-recession
levels
Poverty rate is down to 12.7%, but probably not for long
More and more older Americans are slipping into poverty

The USA  and especially California
 has a major poverty problem
US child poverty declines, still surpasses adults
Ive watched my patients die of poverty for 40 years. Its time
for single payer health care in the US
Concern in Ireland over gap between minimum wage and living wage
New higher minimum wage still 20% below living wage

Fears Irelands social welfare policy
making young adults homeless
Chinas unconditional cash program: Implications for basic income
Welfare drug testing in Australia punishes those least able to change
Increase in homelessness in the UK likely to have been driven by
welfare reforms
Labour reform plans in France face first big test: A strike
Progress on global poverty and disease at risk, says Bill Gates

Book review: Social
policy in Canada (2nd edition) - September 11
Book by Ernie PhD and Naomi Lightman PhD
(Book review by Nick Falvo PhD)

Book review: Social policy in Canada
(2nd edition) - September 11
Book by Ernie Lightman PhD and Naomi Lightman PhD
(Book review by Nick Falvo PhD)

Book review: Social policy in Canada
(2nd edition)
Oxford University Press has recently released the second edition of Social
Policy in Canada, co-authored by the father-daughter duo of Ernie Lightman
and Naomi Lightman. I recommend this book as an excellent resource for
students of social policy. It will be useful for classroom instruction,
while also being a handy reference for researchers, persons who design
and administer social policy, and persons who advocate for improved social
policy.

Here are 10 things to know about Social
Policy in Canada:

1. The book does an outstanding job of explaining
important ideas in very succinct
2. Many of the visuals are very helpful.
3. The book provides excellent suggestions for further reading but no
mention of Canadian Social Research Links.
"Pity", said the Canadian Social Research Links Guy....
4. The book doesnt provide a succinct definition of social policy.
5. I find some of the concepts introduced to be rather unhelpful.
6. Chapter 5s consideration of privatization is very good, but has
a few shortcomings.
7. Chapter 7s discussion of universal vs. targeted benefits is excellent,
even if it complicates the debate needlessly,
8. Chapter 8s consideration of taxation is very comprehensive.
9. Chapter 10, titled Volunteers, Charities, and Gamblers
tries to do too much.
10. The book has omissions that I hope the authors correct in the next
edition.

Employer pension plans (trusteed pension
funds), first quarter 2017http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/170914/dq170914c-eng.htmSeptember 14, 2017
The market value of assets held by Canadian trusteed pension funds topped
$1.8 trillion in the first quarter. Asset levels were up 4.2% from the
fourth quarter and were 10.5% higher compared with the first quarter of
2016.September 8, 2017

Child Rights Information Network - CRINhttp://crin.org/
CRIN is a global childrens rights advocacy network. Established in 1995,
we press for rights - not charity - and campaign for a genuine shift in how
governments and societies view and treat children. We link to nearly 3,000
organisations that between them work on childrens rights in every country
in the world and rely on our publications, research and information sharing.

NOTE: (by Gilles)
I've decided to suspend any further updates to the CRINMAIL newsletter archive
because of of Internet gremlins. If you click on "Gilles' CRINMAIL Archive"
below, you'll note that the latest issue of CRINMAIL is December 2016 because
that's when I ceased updating the Archives pages for several online newsletters,
some that went right back to Y2K. I've left those pages online but I won't
be updating them.

CRINMAIL Archive (from the CRIN website)https://www.crin.org/en/crin-mail/864
- incl. links to the complete collection of CRINMAIL newsletters right back
to #1 in July 2006
BUT there's no table of contents, so you must click each link to see
the content of each issue.

Children's rights Wiki - from CRINhttp://wiki.crin.org/mediawiki/index.phpThe Children's Rights Wiki assembles all information about children's rights
in every country in one place. The purpose of the project is to make the
huge volume of information that exists on children's rights more accessible,
assist children's rights advocates in identifying persistent violations, and
inspire collective action. This is a web-based, multi-lingual and interactive
project.

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